Forum on Business Continuity, Emergency Response kicks off
The world today is an interconnected, global economy, where virtually every aspect of an organisation’s operation is vulnerable to disruption, and the risk and cost of disruption may extend well beyond mere financial.
Business Continuity Management and Emergency Response have become increasingly critical areas of competence for organizations in private as well as public sectors. Recent history has shown that no organization is immune to the threat of the external terrorist or the internal saboteur or the mismanagement or inappropriate stewardship of an organisation’s resources and reputation.
Supported by the Information Technology Authority, the 7th Business Continuity and Emergency Response Middle East Forum kicked off yesterday at the Sheraton Oman Hotel in Muscat.
The two-day event aims to identify, examine and integrate the diverse emergency management, crisis management, contingency planning and business continuity issues facing a private sector organization in its internal operations and interface with the government agencies and emergency management communities.
The forum brings together top business continuity and emergency response management leaders who will shed light on skills, knowledge elements and concepts applied in the context of the protecting and continuing the organisational life cycle in the face of unforeseen disruptions. The event will feature several panel discussions, group tasks, round table discussions and insightful case studies on cyber security, emergency response and recovery, enterprise risk management and integration of health, safety and environment with business continuity.
“BCM will play an important role for keeping the business in the market and being more competitive,” said Qais al Aamri, Business Continuity Technical Leader at Oman’s Information Technology Authority. “Organizations need to think about the (MOR) minimum operation requirement and try to use their services through social media and keep running the tests to make sure that they are ready for any event or incident,” Al Aamri added.